__/ [ Linonut ] on Friday 01 September 2006 15:58 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Richard Rasker belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> And so on and so on ... I patiently demonstrated everything and answered
>> all their questions - all but te final one: "But why do people keep
>> paying for Windows when you can get all this for free?" This turned out to
>> be the only question I couldn't answer in a satisfactory manner ...
>
> Just point them to this link:
>
> http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95000750
>
> Court Ruling
> Was No Victory
> For Microsoft
> King Pyrrhus, meet Bill Gates.
>
> BY ROBERT H. BORK AND KENNETH W. STARR
> Thursday, July 5, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT
>
> Microsoft will continue to argue that any serious remedy would damage
> innovation. But Microsoft suppressed the innovation of Netscape, Sun
> and Intel. In any case, Microsoft is hardly a leading innovator. It
> bought the technologies for its major products. Its genius has been
> in business and predation, not innovation.
>
> Microsoft's response to the legal threat it continues to face is to
> unleash a swarm of lobbyists and lawyers upon the administration and
> Congress to urge a quick settlement. Judging from its past
> negotiations with the Department of Justice, the company will not
> accept any settlement that seriously inhibits its ability to engage
> in predation.
Get a load of this. Just published and I suspect it will receive less
attention than deserved.
Changing the (Federal) Report, After the Vote
,----[ Quote ]
| That agreement was nearly imperiled last weekend, though. Gerri
| Elliott, corporate vice president at Microsoft's Worldwide Public
| Sector division, sent an e-mail message to fellow commissioners Friday
| evening saying that she "vigorously" objected to a paragraph in which
| the panel embraced and encouraged the development of open source software
| and open content projects in higher education. The paragraph read like
| this:
|
| "The commission encourages the creation of incentives to promote
| the development of open-source and open-content projects at universities
| and colleges across the United States, enabling the open sharing of
| educational materials from a variety of institutions, disciplines, and
| educational perspectives. Such a portal could stimulate innovation, and
| serve as the leading resource for teaching and learning. New initiatives
| such as OpenCourseWare, the Open Learning Initiative, the Sakai Project,
| and the Google Book project hold out the potential of providing universal
| access both to general knowledge and to higher education."
`----
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
Best wishes,
Roy
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